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Soaking up all the left D would like soaking up the a Pacific with a sponge.
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OEL has the fifth worst +/- among all NHL defencemen, and earned every minus. OELs +/- is pretty much twice as bad as the next worst Canuck D. Hedman is a plus twelve and makes less money.
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The best thing I’ve seen about Ratu is that the puck keeps arriving where he happens to go. That says he has a mind for the game at a high level. The weakest part of his game is his finish, but a smart guy can fix that.
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Man, I have to wonder if that’s a Vancouver thing, but then I recall Kesler and Burroughs - two guys great on both sides of the puck - so maybe a Vancouver thing during the Benning era and it’s penumbra.
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[GDT] Vancouver Canucks at Detroit Red Wings | Feb.11 @ 9am
Ray_Cathode replied to Ted Lasso's topic in Canucks Talk
Power plays 7-1, till this call in favor of Detroit. On the first one, Detroit player was holding Miller’s stick for mist of the shift - Miller got a penalty for trying to get his stick back. On OELs delay penalty, the Detroit player smacked him on the head, right before he shot the puck over the glass. No call on either of those. Typical NHL crap. -
[GDT] Vancouver Canucks at Detroit Red Wings | Feb.11 @ 9am
Ray_Cathode replied to Ted Lasso's topic in Canucks Talk
He is well named. Note that he is not called Fastman nor Pretty Average Man, nor Mobike Man, it’s Stillman. I’ve been watching Wolanin in Abby wondering why he’s not up here, guess the tank’s been on for a while, just accumulate a weak crew of defencemen and leave it at that - blame the coaches for the failure. -
Tragic beyond belief.
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Vaccines normally function to prevent the disease they target, i.e. polio vaccine, smallpox vaccine, and so on. Flu vaccines also function that way, but they do not protect against all flu variants, only those that are projected to become the most common). The Covid vaccines were initially sold to us in that way, to prevent one from getting Covid) and were initially supposed to be 97% effective. Since the mRNA vaccines focused primarily on the spike protein (the part of the virus most subject to mutation, rather than functional internal elements of the virus) they quickly became less effective - within a few months effectiveness dropped to under 50%. At that point we became informed that we should get the vaccine to protect others, then as new variants emerged, the vaccine effectiveness dropped to less than 10% after three months from it being administered. Whereas natural immunity was still 70% effective after 17 months from infection. Yet natural immunity was denigrated in the media and by governments. Most infections therefore were not being passed on by the unvaxxed, but by the vaxxed whose protection had quickly degraded, but who had the media fostered illusion that vaxxing made them safe. I had the two Phizer vaxxes and still got Covid - twice. If you think vaccines work the way you think they work, then why the hell did they have to change the definition of "vaccine"? Why did CDC change definition for ‘vaccine’? Agency explains | Miami Herald (I included a sympathetic to CDC reference here, though many other references less generous have been removed by many search engines). From the Phizer vaccine I got had a massive adverse reaction - on the first shot, I got all the symptoms of Covid, lost 15 pounds in six weeks and did not recover for two months. On the second, I lost another fifteen pounds in six weeks and was couch bound for six months with myocarditis). Of course no one knew the effect of these vaccines because the testing information from Phizer was sequestered by the CDC until US District Judge Mark Pittman ordered that information released in ten tranches from March 2022 until December 2022. It is from that data that it was discovered that Phizer had not published its actual results and we learned that, unlike previous flu vaccines that yielded 1 adverse effect in a million doses - the Phizer vaccine resulted in one serious adverse effect (such as myocarditis, pericarditis) in 800 doses. In addition, there have been effects such as this (from which both I and my sister now suffer) - severe joint pain - Pfizer Covid vaccine side effects: More than one in 10 people suffer joint pain | Express.co.uk and this: Since at the time of my first dose, none of this information was available, my Doctor felt that due to my age and diabetes, that I should take the second shot (there was no published data to speak of on adverse effects because it was all suppressed in the media (it was not allowed to criticize the vaccine on any digital media except later on Rumble). Thank God for Elon Musk, because he has released all of the data on how Twitter (and other digital media corps) acted as a tool of the US government and the pharma giants in suppressing any adverse commentary on these virtually untested drugs (mRNA, that is). Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA had seventy operatives working at Twitter alone, actively suppressing information - see the inside data that Musk has released. Phizer did not testing on children (healthy people under thirty face no higher risk from Covid than from the seasonal flu) and yet they have been essentially coercing parents into having their kids vaxxed with this crap. Judge scraps 75-year FDA timeline to release Pfizer vaccine safety data, giving agency eight months | Washington Examiner There is as yet no confirmed causal link to SADS (sudden adult death syndrome), yet coincidently, there has been a nearly 50% rise in adult mortality since the start of this vaccination program. The unexplained rise in excess deaths around the world (substack.com) Maybe you should actually do some research before you sound off accusing others of ignorance: you merely display your own. There are none so ignorant as those who will not even look.
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at New Jersey Devils | Feb. 06, 2023
Ray_Cathode replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Refs definitely in on the Canucks tankathon . Absolutely amazing, looks like the Devils have the goods on Bettboy (too tiny to be a Bettman). -
This kid was drafted off a godawful team with lousy coaching but has improved immensely since moving on and up.
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Add in the first rounders we traded away, and the prospects we drafted and didn’t stick with: McCann and Forsburg come immediately to mind. Both of those guys would have looked good on this team about now. Oh yeah, seems like Montreal got a first rounder out of Toffoli.
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More than a couple, cuz the past few years traitor Jim was giving away first and second picks like they were jelly beans, and since we haven’t been close to the playoffs, they have been high picks. Aquaman definitely got rid of the wrong guy between JB and Linden: he got what he wanted out of Benning - striving for mediocrity and the fans got the only thing a striving for mediocrity ever gives - massive failure. And he left an abhorrent mess that will stink up the Canucks for years to come. The fans who demanded immediate mediocrity are getting exactly what they deserved - too bad for the rest of us, though. Looks like they have finally been forced into a rebuild, but God only knows if they’ll stick with it. This ownership has the patience of a ravenous mosquito.
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I agree, Woo has stepped up his whole game - he’s handed out some massive hits, too - very strong for his size. There’s lots of room for effective RD in the NHL - especially in Vancouver if Schenn and Myers are moved before the deadline. We have a couple of guys pushing for a left side D spot next year: Wolanin and Johansson, so I don’t know where that puts Rathbone. I’ve seen so many young prospects lose their confidence and boy do they struggle to recover. Similar thing happened with Rafferty - looked like a world beater in the AHL, got run and injured with a couple of suspended hits and wasn’t the same guy. Maybe Rathbone can work out with the Hughes this summer and improve his D game like Quinn did. Lots of quick, mobile, smart D make the league much more interesting these days.
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That is some goal!
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Woo's defensive game really coming along this year - the whole team's defensive game is much improved - even though the guy that should be the top prospect on D (Rathbone) has been hurt pretty much all this year and plays like a guy that has lost his confidence.
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Wolanin has been impressive right from the pre-season on. Hoglander getting better with each game. He really needed this change, he just looks more and more comfortable each game. Both he and Podkolzin have been very ambitious defensively.
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Nope, first round picks are the ones you just have to hit on if your team is to advance - the likelihood of a first round pick hitting is equal to the possibiity of the second and third round picks combined. But more than that, picks in the first five to ten, just have to hit - if they don't you fall dramatically compared to your competitors.
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Sure, in response to a management that did not harness the power of foresight - of seeing the long term consequence of character.
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You don’t pick a guy fifth overall to play on your fourth line, especially not a winger. Fifth overall you expect to get a top six winger (if you are picking a winger, and they were). Virtanen never showed as particularly smart, and that should have been picked up in player interviews.
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Her demeanour is enough to make CO2 leave the planet.
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I don’t think so in a strong draft year. But what do I know, when Infirst heard Benning was coming to Vancouver, I thought it might be a good thing. I have since had that part of my brain removed.
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Podkolzin is a very smart player, the offence will come.
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5.5 looks like a pretty good deal. I really like that he is excited to be here - he might well have done better going on the open market.